Nate’s Wings and Waffles is expected to open in August at 12th and E Jefferson. I hope the food is better than the Renton location … tiny pieces of chicken and less than imaginative sauces. Meantime L’il Woody’s Marcus Lalario is opening a new place, Fat’s Chic[...]
Posts Tagged ‘restaurants’
May 22nd, 2015 - 8:57 am § in The Ave Scene
THE Ave Scene: Paella!
Event A Night In Spain! – Paella Dinner Experience a night in Spain! A delicious, authentic meal of tapas, sangria, seafood paella, and sorbet de champan, followed by a ravishing flamenco performance! Jun 20, 2015 6:00 PM $20 Wallingford Center Featuring Chef Jim Yragui [...]
May 18th, 2015 - 7:53 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Scene: Tastes of Scotia
June 4, 5PM $20.00 ($21.69 w/service fee) BROWN PAPER TICKETS Event Devour! Seattle Author Kathleen Flinn and Chef John Sundstrom have partnered with Devour! The Food Film Fest, the world’s largest food film festival, to bring a feast for the senses to Seattle. Taking the [...]
April 10th, 2015 - 12:22 pm § in The Ave Scene
Sandwiches in Seattle?
PUBLICOLA: Grinders Hot Sands Amid the strip-mall wastes of north Aurora sits this tidy shrine to great live music and perfect sandwiches. Though the meatball and cheesesteak have their defenders, the Ciabatta best exemplifies classic grinder greatness: stacks of hot capicola, Genoa salami, mortadel[...]
February 23rd, 2015 - 3:39 am § in The Ave Scene
Langston Hughes
Kingfish Café The Coaston sisters celebrate their family cookbook from New Orleans. Some call it soul or maybe N’awlins. Whatever, the recipes from poet Hughes are awesome and were that way for a couple of decades at the Kingfish Cafe. Looking forward to take-outs to com. RIP K[...]
February 9th, 2015 - 4:59 pm § in The Ave Scene
Seattle BBQ?
Sigghh .. with the evaporation (ethnic cleansing by economic means) of Black Seattle, we have fewer and fewer good places for any soul food .. and that includes barbecue. The only places Barb and I like are Willy’s and Uncle Mike’s (left). Willy is nearby .. just south of Franklin High[...]
December 6th, 2014 - 11:16 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Ezells spreading its wings to Spokane
Ezell’s is one of the best things about Seattle. I can remember when to was a black secret because white folks were afraid to go to the CD. One day my I discovered something even better: Hill’s Brothers’ Barbecue .. around the corner in a half burned out shack. We used to get[...]
August 3rd, 2014 - 12:13 pm § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Street Food Festival
Food, Crafts, Music This glorious weekend will mean a return of the Capital Hill Food Festival that debuted last year alongside Cal Anderson Park on 11th Aves hours will offer a nighttime experience with the festival running from 5 to 10 PM. Saturday will get going at 11 AM and run until 11 PM,[...]
June 8th, 2014 - 4:00 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
When Will The Seattle Get Great Southern Food?
Seattle has never had much southern food. The great Hills Brothers barbecue closed decades ago to be survived by the good but not great Willies and Jones’ brothers. Until it closed a few months ago, Les Bon Ton was pretty good at imitating a N’awlins road house. Of course there is [...]
May 23rd, 2014 - 6:37 pm § in The Ave Scene
Politicals discover pastrami in Alki
PUBLICOLA FINDS PASTRAMI IN SEATTLE: Finding real Jewish meats in Seattle is more difficult than finding Republicans. But, my favorite Seattle politics site may be good at both. Over in West Seattle Kathryn Robinson reports on one of those yuppie meat markets, Terra Cole Butcher[...]